Advanced Physical + Massage Therapy

We say "ADVANCED" because there is nothing that we do which is traditional. Excessive post graduate training - including lots of time, travel, and money - have gone in above and beyond our licensed education to provide you with unique services and powerful talent to improve your health.

Our bodies are mechanical in nature and with the right kind of care, they can get mechanically re-aligned, re-calibrated and re-balanced.

Unlike other forms of therapy, the THRIVE team focuses on treating sport and orthopedic injuries as part of a system, not isolated injuries. We work to balance the biomechanics of the entire system by assessing all possibilities of mechanical limitations.

Pain doesn’t necessarily mean that is where the problem is ---Often it is what doesn’t hurt that is the real primary reason why many people have pain and recurrent injuries. We work to identify the mechanical failure and root cause of pain.

We are Hampton Road's first and ONLY Postural Restoration Certified Center and ALL of our therapists have unique training in this truly amazing science. Postural Restoration (PRI) is a progressive approach to physical medicine which incorporates osteopathic, biomechanical, neurological, respiratory, and orthopedic teachings to rebalance human posture and gait. This approach addresses underlying biomechanical adaptation patterns which often lead to symptoms of pain and dysfunction. With PRI, all mechanical influences on the body that restrict movement and contribute to improper joint and muscle position are considered, examined, and assessed. Learn more...

Graston Technique is an Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization tool known for its success in effectively treating all soft tissue conditions, whether they are chronic, acute or post surgical. These tools allow us to address fascial and scar restrictions at a different capacity than traditional manual therapy. Once we are able to reduce or eliminate adhered fibers contributing to movement dysfunction, pain, and limitation, functional mobility is restored and and associated pain is eliminated. Learn more...

We have had excessive training in various forms of osteopathic manual medicine, myofasical release, neurovascular + visceral release and other advanced education in bodywork and movement therapies. We pull techniques from teachings like Anatomy Trains, Rolfing, Postural Restoration, Neuromuscular Deep Tissue, Vacuum Therapy Cupping, Hot Stone Massage, Reflexology, and Aromatherapy to enhance your experience. We are known for the unique fascial releases which we do around the thoracic cage and ribs to restore mechanical ventilatory movement for respiration. Improving mechanical ventilation can reduce excessive muscle tension and indirectly restore spinal mechanics to eliminate pain for those having back, neck, hip, shoulder, and other pain areas (including headaches and TMJ).

Integrative Dry Needling is based off the work or Dr. Yun-tao Ma, PhD and is an important modality in modern day Physical Therapy. This kind of treatment is powerful in treating soft tissue dysfunction, musculoskeletal pain, neuromuscular injury/imbalance and can accelerate the process of returning a patient's body to a state of homeostasis. Dry Needling should not be be confused with acupuncture and a complete acupuncture treatment might yield a holistic benefit above and beyond our limited dry needling treatment.*The State of Virginia requires that dry needling be performed under the written referral and direction from a physician. If you would like dry needling incorporated into your treatment please be sure your doctor includes that in your referral for physical therapy.

Whether you have a minor injury, a tweak in your neck from sitting at the computer, a hitch in your hip while you’re running, or a pain in your knee or lower back– it’s not too severe but you know somethings coming on. Pop into Thrive and get it checked out!

We believe that nobody should ever live in pain and we take an integrative holistic approach to help you enhance your movement health and quality of life.

Whether you have a newer onset of pain, recent injury OR you have been in pain for many years and nobody has been able to offer you relief or an explanation that helps you, we can help. You need to know that if you have chronic pain or injury, there is still hope. Even if you have had back, neck, hip, or any pain for several years, you’ve seen 4 or 5 specialists in the area, already tried physical therapy and/or other healing types of care, we can offer a new perspective and we often help significantly when traditional western reactive medicine as failed.